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I have a list of dataframes, all of the same structure and all are polygons.

How can I add them all together using geopandas?

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it seems that this is the right way to do that right now:

rdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame( pd.concat( dataframesList, ignore_index=True) )
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    Great answer, one improvement: rdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(pd.concat(dataframesList, ignore_index=True), crs=dataframesList[0].crs). Now new dataframe will also have the same CRS as one of the initial dataframes. Because of using pandas.concat any geographical metadata such as CRS does not get preserved by default.
    – AleksMat
    Sep 12, 2018 at 16:44
  • This works well - thanks. I did find the append can go astray e.g. when one file has "name" and another has "Name", I ended up with nothing in either column for rows from one file. I couldn't reproduce it reliably so I ended up forcing column names to lower case to simplify the column mashing, which seems to be reliable.
    – Mike Honey
    Nov 21, 2019 at 1:38
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    I ought you a beer! Thanks Phillipp_Kats
    – almrog
    Jul 6, 2020 at 14:49
  • @AleksMat Is there any other geographical metadata besides CRS that we should also copy over to make sure it is preserved?
    – rasen58
    Nov 11, 2020 at 16:43
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    @rasen58 According to GeoDataFrame implementation it seems that the only other metadata information is geometry column name. In a rare case that you don't use the default name "geometry" then you have to consolidate that as well.
    – AleksMat
    Nov 12, 2020 at 20:27
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I just experimented with this - maybe in GeoPandas 0.2.1 and Pandas 0.20.3 it is a bit more concise:

gdf = pd.concat([gdf1, gdf2])

gdf is automatically created as a GeoDataFrame. Of course if there is a chance of conflicting indices you'll want to keep the 'ignore_index=True' parameter.

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    I just tried this and I can confirm it does not work (using pandas_0.20.3 geopandas_0.3.0). The result is a DataFrame, not a GeoDataFrame. E.g. if you try to use gdf1.to_file(xxx, driver='ESRI Shapefile') you will get an error which says 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'to_file'
    – jberrio
    Jul 18, 2018 at 0:48
  • @jberrio thanks for the update! looks like the update to GeoPandas made things more explicit.
    – Charlie Parr
    Jul 18, 2018 at 18:19
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    – PolyGeo ♦
    Jul 20, 2018 at 23:04
  • This worked fine for me with pandas version: 0.24.2 and geopandas version: 0.5.0
    – denson
    Jun 11, 2019 at 17:42
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    this works for me, the output type is a geodataframe. Using python 3.8.3; pandas 1.0.5; geopandas 0.8.0.
    – a11
    Aug 4, 2020 at 16:20

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